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Appointed deputy county attorney in Wichita in 1907, Lawyer McGill made an early reputation by winning every case he brought to trial, then spent two undistinguished decades in criminal law and local politics before he was elected to fill the Senate vacancy left by Hoover Vice President Charles Curtis in 1930. Two years later he won a practically foolproof campaign as a Roosevelt and Labor man against old Republican Senator Henry Allen...
Jewish-Irish- Muncie, Ind. is "Middletown," U. S. A. Benjamin Victor Cohen was born there in 1894, son of a scrap iron merchant. He broke all scholastic records at University of Chicago Law School (1915), took a postgraduate year at Harvard Law School and became secretary to U. S. Circuit Court Judge Julian Mack (receiverships). The War and the Jews' plight brought Cohen into contact with Louis Dembitz Brandeis. He is still a director of Palestine Economic Corp., wherein he first tasted planned economy. In the reckless 19205 he was not above playing the stockmarket. A killing Chrysler stock...
...Corcoran was born in Pawtucket, R. I. in 1900. His father's father was Irish (Presidential Purgee John J. and ex-Presidential Law Partner Basil O'Connor are distant Corcoran cousins). His mother's people were pre-Revolutionary New Englanders. His education, after Brown University (where he worked his way through, centred on the football scrubs) and Harvard Law School (where he led his class) was topped off by a year at the knee of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, great Liberal colleague of Ben Cohen's Brandeis. He used to read Greek classics aloud...
...scrambled days of Mr. Hoover's exit and Mr. Roosevelt's advent, alert young Lawyer Corcoran made himself extremely useful as a personnel man to staff the new administrative agencies with legal talent. For this he was equipped by having run a placement bureau for Harvard Law graduates. Washington became full, and still is, of his "boys," who not only get work done the way he wants it but constitute an argus-eyed personal intelligence service. He particularly delights in drafting able sons of Tory fathers and infecting them with Liberalism. Example: Joseph Cotton...
When its new law for State aid to the indigent aged (over 65), the blind, and to dependent children (effective September 1) was approved last week by the U. S. Social Security Board, Virginia qualified for Federal old-age assistance. Result: every State in the union now provides such assistance. Total aged now Federally aided: 1,721,000. Add for Virginia...